Minimum Wage Quotes - Page 7

• Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

  Christina Romer

  Hard Work, Littles, Fairness

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• Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

  Christina Romer

  President, Unions, Addresses

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• Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor to find jobs. ...those who most need the work will have a harder time finding it.

  Paul Kersey

  Jobs, Way, Needs

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• I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.

  Rachael Taylor

  Mother, Jobs, Nice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.

  Aruna Roy

  Organization, People, Wages

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• Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

  Neal Boortz

  Salary, Unions, Percentages

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• Many Americans are feeling, you know, shut out, shut down, the great recession hasn't ended for too many Americans, wages are flat, families are struggling, not enough new jobs, or new businesses are being created, and it's important that we all try to figure out what we're going to do, and that's what I've done my entire life, fighting for a higher minimum wage, or family leave, now paid family leave which I believe in, equal pay for equal work.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Believe, Struggle

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• Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

  Hillary Clinton

  Support, Poverty, Raises

  Source: time.com

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• The Trump plan is a different plan. It's a you're fired plan. And there's two key elements to it. First, Donald Trump said wages are too high. And both Donald Trump and Mike Pence think we ought to eliminate the federal minimum wage.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Keys, Two

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. And he has been a one-man bulwark against minimum wage increases in Indiana.

  Tim Kaine

  Men, Indiana, Increase

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• People have to pay so much money to the banks that they don't have enough money to buy the goods and services they produce. So there's not much new investment, there's not new employment (except minimum-wage "service" jobs), markets are shrinking, and people are defaulting. So many companies can't pay their banks.

  Michael Hudson

  Jobs, People, Shrinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Anyone who supported Bernie Sanders who thinks we should raise the minimum wage, who thinks that we should have universal health care coverage, who thinks that the wealthy have not paid their fair share, and I could go on and on, would certainly not find that Donald Trump's views are in line with theirs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Views, Should Have

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Wall

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• While she [Hillary Clinton] may have a - give lip service to progressive issues, she led the charge, and there she definitely did, in Haiti, to push down the minimum wage from 60 cents an hour down to 40 cents an hour. She, you know, has been the good friend of the big banks forever, and the insurance companies.

  Jill Stein

  Good Friend, Issues, Giving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Increase, Should

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

  Hillary Clinton

  Equal Pay, Guarantees, Economy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

  Thomas Perez

  Running, Children, Typical

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• You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Years, Needs

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.527, Best Books on

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• My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Family, Mother, Money

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• Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower minimum wage for tipped workers than for everybody else, reinforcing the industry’s

  Rinku Sen

  Law, People, Enforcement

  Rinku Sen (2009). “The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization: Easyread Large Edition”, p.280, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Raising the federal minimum wage won't just put more money in the pocket of low-income families - it also means they spend more money at the businesses in their neighborhoods. [Donald] Trump's against that as well.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Pockets, Low Income

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15.

  David Rolf

  Teacher, Nursing, Average

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Hillary Clinton] supports now a hike in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Prior to that, she did not support that. Other issues that you could see, at least in the Democratic Party platform, they're there entirely because of the [Bernie] Sanders movement.

  Jonathan Tasini

  Party, Issues, Support

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Impact, Wages, Starting

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• To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid in various industries and to determine the standard which the public ought to sanction as a minimum; and we believe that, as a present installment of what we hope for in the future, there should be at once established in the Nation and its several States minimum standards for the wages of women, taking the present Massachusetts law as a basis from which to start and on which to improve.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Law, Massachusetts

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